Ruby Bridges Right Now

She later became a civil rights activist.

Ruby bridges right now. A book about her experience at william frantz titled the story of ruby bridges was published in 1995. After graduating from a desegregated high school she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full time parent. She runs the ruby bridges foundation to help troubled children at william frantz and other schools. Ruby bridges in full ruby nell bridges married name ruby bridges hall born september 8 1954 tylertown mississippi u s american activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of african american students to integrate schools in the american south.

Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. C ivil rights icon and activist ruby bridges says that when she saw the young people take to the streets after george floyd s killing she felt like it was about time. Bridges now 65 and a civil rights speaker author and advocate wasn t the first black child to integrate a school. Ruby bridges born sept.

Bridges now ruby bridges hall still lives in new orleans with her husband malcolm hall and their four sons. Ruby still lives in new orleans. 8 1954 the subject of an iconic painting by norman rockwell was only 6 years old when she received national attention for desegregating an elementary school in new orleans in her pursuit of a quality education during a time when black people were treated as second class citizens little bridges became a civil rights icon.